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View Poll Results: Do you prefer watch Anime to be subtitled or dubbed in English?

Ugh, I can't believe I was idiotic enough to click on this aneurysm-inducing thread again.

Originally Posted by lovepika

Subbed. Started at Digiom when I watched the entire generation 1 anime subbed, and I realized that Japanese names are much better (seriously, my favourite Digimon, Tailmon, is in English called 'gatomon' and in my language, 'gate' means.. Well.. underpants.. and Tepig. In my language, that means carpet.) sounding and original voice is always better, too, so I decided any anime is better subbed than dubbed, and prefer to watch it in original language. But the problem is, it's really hard to actually find subbed version...

You're complaining about Tepig meaning carpet in "your language?" Why don't you watch Pokemon in "your language" instead? Pokemon names are made to fit each language, so it's ridiculous to complain about an English name's meaning in another language and use that as an argument against dubs. A legitimate complaint would be if there was a Pokemon named "carpet" in english.

Saying that the original voice is always better is extremely closed minded of you. English voices are much more varied and sometimes a lot more realistic. The Japanese only cast idols for female voices, for one thing, so you don't get much variation from the "young skinny twenty year-old woman who looks and sounds like a ten year old girl" mould. English voice actresses aren't worshipped like Japanese voice actresses are, so almost anyone can become one (age and looks don't matter).

I'm tired of the "I hate English because the voices suck" argument. The voices can suck in Japanese too, you just don't notice because you don't speak Japanese so you don't pay much attention to how the voices put words together. You're also biased towards the Japanese voices if you watched the Anime subbed before you watched it dubbed.

Originally Posted by Airi-Chan

Well, I prefer subbed
Because I prefer Japanese Voice Actor/Actress. This is better than dubbed version. Sometime a young boy was dubbed by male VA in English version, it's not match voice for me

True, and that is a legitimate complaint. However, using it to say that Japanese voices are better is wrong because the Japanese are really bad for having women voice teenage boys and sometimes adult men (Goku from DBZ), which is even more jarring than little boys with deep voices.

Originally Posted by Jay-san

Listening to the english voices is odd for me. I like listening to the japanese voices, the guys always sound cooler XD

Yeah, listening to your native language sure is odd! And of course Japanese sounds cooler. You don't understand it (learning a couple of Japanese words from Anime does not mean that you know Japanese).

Originally Posted by AceFlonne

Subbed, I only like dubs in certain animes but not the shounen jump english dubs, The voices are ugly.

I agree with that argument. However, it's not like Shonen Jump Anime are the highest pedigree you can watch (in fact, they're just about the lowest), so it doesn't even concern me if the voices are subpar. Their target audiences are ten year-old boys, not middle-aged film critics.

Originally Posted by Ver-mont

Subbed. I like to watch things with the original audio, it's always way better.

You had a really good argument going on before you ruined it with your generalization at the end.

Originally Posted by Lacie

Well, it wouldn't be a bad thing if people were multi-lingual, which is why I prefer watching anime, and any TV show, in other languages.

That's a fair argument. But learning Japanese from watching Anime is like learning English from watching old Western movies. It's an extremely one-sided view of an entire culture.

Saying that the original voice is always better is extremely closed minded of you. English voices are much more varied and sometimes a lot more realistic. The Japanese only cast idols for female voices, for one thing, so you don't get much variation from the "young skinny twenty year-old woman who looks and sounds like a ten year old girl/boy" mould.

Fix'd for you.

And I don't think they only cast idols for voices. There are times (and more likely, I would think) where they don't cast idols and then those voices become idols by fans, but I would agree they do seem to be biased on having certain type of voices for young females.

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Saying that the original voice is always better is extremely closed minded of you. English voices are much more varied and sometimes a lot more realistic. The Japanese only cast idols for female voices, for one thing, so you don't get much variation from the "young skinny twenty year-old woman who looks and sounds like a ten year old girl" mould. English voice actresses aren't worshipped like Japanese voice actresses are, so almost anyone can become one (age and looks don't matter).

If you think all female seiyuu have similiar voices you really need to watch more anime with the original voices, because that couldn't be farther from the truth.

I really don't care either way. Though I do enjoy dubbed a bit more because I can enjoy the facial expressions and movement of the characters, Subbed usually has the better voice acting. So I'm partial to both, as long as I can enjoy a great story and atmosphere.

It depends on the anime or comapany, I guess. If 4Kids is handling something, that means one thing:RUN! But if it's FUNimation, you can think, "Well, they're gonna use Haberkorn's voice again, but they're funny people."
SEE?

The great majority of the time japanese language is MUCH BETTER than dub, not only are the japanese voice actors much more into the job and better,say, trained but also because of the simple fact that it's an anime so all those typical and peculiar faces and expressions made by the characters match and are portrayed much better by there native language that is linked to that over the top culture.

There are some really good dubs out there (Cowboy Bebop and FLCL come to mind), however, there are waaaaay many more horrendous ones. Some are just embarassing to watch. Plus I've honestly never had a problem with reading subs, they don't bother me.

Well the anime I typically watch have action in it so I really don't want to be constantly reading and missing out on some of it, only times I've watched something subbed would be when the dub wasn't avaliable or if I couldn't wait another week for the next episode(s) so I'd have to say I'd like to have the option to choose if it's online but dubbed if it's like me owning the dvd and all.

I see how some of you are saying the original language gives more to it. I guess I'd personally like that more if I understood exactly what they are saying. I like dubbed only because I can't stand just staring at the tv. I cross stitch (aka needle point) while I watch tv. I know I still miss things, but that is what rewind is for :P

Totally depends on which dub and what anime, in all honesty. Take Pokemon for example: I love the 4Kids dub and I hate TPCi dub with a passion. The voices just freaking suck for the main characters...I can't really say much else. They still horrify me and the only voices to improve at all over the last seven years are Ash and Jessie. The rest either got even worse (Brock, May, Meowth, James) or stayed just as bad.

Subbed, do I need to say any more? I don't really like watching dubbed animes, I actually did also learn some Japanese from animes I watched before I started taking classes when I was younger (well several years ago but you get the point, not perferct Japanese at all but anyway).